The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and ...deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A child who fears excessive retaliation for even minor offenses will learn very early on that to lie is to protect himself.... If ...your child intuits that you will react very punitively to his wrongdoing, he may be tempted to lie and may become, as time goes on, a habitual liar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

For this world we live inNone of us is sly enough....Never do we noticeAll is lie and bluff.Caesar beat the Gauls.Was there not even a cook in his army?Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I notAlways spoken the truth in my books? And nowYou treat me like a liar! I order you:Burn me!Those who lead the country into the abyssCall ruling too difficultFor ordinary men.Ah, what an age it isWhen to speak of trees is almost a crimeFor it is a kind of silence about injustice!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean a...nd slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," a...nd can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, the shame and the degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland--yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »